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Australians
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| Surname | | DAWSON |
| Given Name(s) or Initial(s) | | Samuel Joseph |
| Regimental Number | | 538 |
| Rank | | Private |
| Unit Name | | New South Wales Citizens' Bushmen |
| State | | NSW |
Extracts and Comments
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B5204: initial S, Queen's South Africa Medal (SA01) issued 29.7.05.
Roe: not identified in Murray.
Source:# 1064 served in the Boer War and later in WW1 where he won the Military Medal for being the first man to swim the River Jordan.
URL1: WW1 AIF DAWSON Samuel 17967 Sapper 1st & 2nd Fd. Troops, Military Medal, 166 days Citizens' Bushmen Contingent in South Africa.
URL2: WW1 AIF Samuel Joseph DAWSON Sapper 17967 1 & 2 Field Troops Engineers, a colliery manager aged 36 in 1917, born in Hanley Staffs. Eng., next of kin wife in Sydney NSW, 166 days Citizens' Bushmen Contingent in South Africa, Military Medal LG 29.8.1918 for swimming the Jordan R. under fire, 1931 correspondence with Repatriation Commission Hobart.
Hbt. Mercury: died 15.2.1931 in Hamilton Tas., obituary says awarded a gold medal and Royal Humane Society Vic. certificate for role in 1912 Mt. Lyell mine disaster, served as a Private in Boer War before resuming work as a mining engineer. In WW1 he joined bridging train of Palestine desert column and was awarded the DCM and made King's Sergeant for swimming the Jordan at night under fire to get the first rope across, also awarded MM for capturing a machine gun post before being invalided home with shell shock.
URL5: letter dated Ottoshoop 28.11.1900 from Tpr. S DAWSON, Staff Orderly 1st Regt. NSW Bushmen to his parents in Lithgow NSW.
URL6: Trooper S DAWSON, of the Bushmen, writing from Ottosdorp (Transvaal) to his parents in Lithgow, says - "There is as much fight as you want in this part, and you have only to go out of the camp to get it. We lost another man yesterday, but we took 20 prisoners. I was talking to one of them, and it is a fact that he did not know the British had taken
Pretoria and would not believe they had. If the Boers knew the truth the war would have been over months ago.
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B5204: National Archives of Australia series B5204
Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 1064
B2455: National Archives of Australia series B2455
Hbt. Mercury: Hobart Mercury newspaper date(s) 20.2.1931
Aust. War Memorial: Canberra AWM4 14/40/5 part 1 pages 15 sheet 58 & 34-42 sheet 26-30
Syd. Herald : Sydney Morning Herald newspaper date(s) 29.10 & 13.11.1900
| | External Link URL1 | | aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=75443 | | External Link URL2 | | recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=3493596 | | External Link URL3 | | nla.gov.au/nla.news-page1810453 | | External Link URL4 | | www.awm.gov.au/cms_images/AWM4/14/AWM4-14-40-5part1.pdf | | External Link URL5 | | nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14374267 | | External Link URL6 | | nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14348597 |
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